On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 05:36, David Walser wrote: > --- Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The code is not what is patentend. It's the > > algorithm. > > Of course. So you'd have to use the patented > algorithm to have problems.
You can't decode MP3 without using the patented algorithm. MP3 is essentially audio data compressed with a certain algorithm. The *only* way to re-extract the data is to run it through the same algorithm in the opposite direction. This is ultimately all mp3 encoding / decoding does. -- adamw
